If you have pre-ordered hackoff.com from Amazon as many people have, you may have recently received a confusing email from the bookseller saying that your order was cancelled or that shipment has been delayed. Frankly, we don't know why these emails are going out and haven't been able to get a response from Amazon. We haven't changed the ship date for the book since we originally posted it; it's still scheduled to ship in February. If you get the "delay" mail, please follow the link back to Amazon and reconfirm your order so they don't cancel it.
Of course I stand by my promise to sign all the preordered books.
The good news is that Amazon has an infinite book rack and is willing to sell almost any title an author or publisher can make available.
The bad news is that Amazon has done a poor job of automating the process of posting books for sale and absolutely refuses any phone contact with a human being to straighten out things that get fouled up. There is email support but it is, I suspect, highly robot-assisted. Answers are only semi-responsive and problems like this one just don't get fixed.
I understand why the process of dealing with small publishers must be automated. I don't understand why Amazon can't just give small publishers the tools we need to manipulate our own listing pages. Right now we have the worst of both worlds: there is insufficient automation of the posting process and over-automation of the support process. We're frustrated to not be able to give you better service... but we're working on it.
Thanks for you patience.